I see that occurring often when the letter is an accented letter, such as an a-breve (ă) or an a-macron (ā). Before Unicode became widespread, some sites would use .gif images for these accented characters. Even with the proper encoding (i. e., Unicode) available, I find that the schwa () shows up as a square box, ə, so I have to copy-and-paste the link to the original .gif

I often find that when I first paste a special character into the editing box here on the Agora, it get translated to an HTML escape sequence after a refresh.

Regards//Larry

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee

Stargzer wrote:I see that occurring often when the letter is an accented letter, such as an a-breve (ă) or an a-macron (ā). Before Unicode became widespread, some sites would use .gif images for these accented characters. Even with the proper encoding (i. e., Unicode) available, I find that the schwa () shows up as a square box, ə, so I have to copy-and-paste the link to the original .gif

I often find that when I first paste a special character into the editing box here on the Agora, it get translated to an HTML escape sequence after a refresh.

Both your a's and the schwa's were displayed all right for me; no boxes and no hints of gif's (such copies often are revealed by a white background). The first schwa was, however, raised.

I'm getting used to the HTML sequence transmogrification when, for example, writing in Chinese. Strange, though.

Stargzer wrote:. . . Both your a's and the schwa's were displayed all right for me; no boxes and no hints of gif's (such copies often are revealed by a white background). The first schwa was, however, raised.

I'm getting used to the HTML sequence transmogrification when, for example, writing in Chinese. Strange, though.

The first schwa is a .gif, set in a pair of IMG tags; the second, which shows up as a square box for me, is the character copied from the charmap.exe program, as are the two a's.

Regards//Larry

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee

tcward wrote:Stargzer, you're using Internet Explorer, I bet... The schwa shows up as a square for me under IE also.

I don't have that problem with Mozilla's Firefox browser, though.

-Tim

Yeah, I'm an IE kind of guy.

Years ago, on the IBM 270x and 370x front-end processors, there was an instruction called Data Wrap, which was used to echo back a test pattern internally. I felt compelled to compose a Data Rap in response. The first lines I wrote, which did not end up being the first lines of the Wrap, go like this:

In go the bits and out go the data.This is a test but it isn't Beta.Ain't beta than what? Well, my browser's IE,And it's beta than Netscape if you ask Bill G.

Regards//Larry

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee